The article mentions the Australians when they are in the southern states like them with tea. Also a disgusting thing done with peanuts,they (the southerners not the Australians) boil them in their shells and eat them hot. Enjoy your soup.

I presume you mean a cup of tea. Haven’t heard of it myself. We don’t put shrimps on the barbie either.

You had me worried for a minutes when you mentioned “disgusting things done with peanuts”

Seriously? No shrimps on the barbie! It’s one of the “hot” restaurant items here, they put shrimp on a wooden skewer and over cook them over an open flame so you get charred, fishy smelling chew toys on a stick. Not my favorite.

Even worse than you could imagine. DB. The “imported” Aussie beer they serve is “Fosters”.
PD – Fosters Lager is a brand here too. Very popular up to the 1970’s but lost flavour (excuse the pun) with the public over the years at the expense of other brands like Carlton Draught and Victoria Bitter. It’s still brewed but hard to find. Brewed overseas under licence.

Now if I am not mistaken, today (26-Jan-2010) is when your entire nation celebrates a certain Muppet’s Mother’s birthday. And if my calculations are correct she is…
well, lets just says she isn’t old enough to retire, yet. Just the dawn of a new day for her. 😉

“Prawns usually have claws on three pairs of their legs, while shrimp only have claws on two” from Wikipedia, who knew? I always thought it the name difference was were like “crayfish,” some people call them crawdads, but I guess in the case of shrimp and prawns there is a physical difference. Sorry about the long lull with my comment Paradise Driver :o) !

I won’t enter into this discussion because I’m not a partaker of these things and can’t profess to be an expert.

How can you not eat shrimp? Wait, significant other doesn’t eat shrimp either, his explanation is that prehistoric man was visited by beings from outer space, and they co-mingled their genetic makeup (catch my drift wink, wink, nudge, nudge?) He says he’s more alien therefore he does not eat things that come from the sea. Us seafood eaters are genetically closer to early man who crawled out of the primordial ooze so we like all things fishy. He usually says this with a straight face, I want to say why don’t you eat space garbage, but I control myself. 🙂